Attila BotárTies (Ave Regina)

"...The great mystery of poetry is how the personal can appear universal. How we can believe that the long-buried loves and enemies of poets of old are still our friends and contemporaries. Why do we feel cosmic about (perhaps) the most original of all, the love poems?

Why does the I without the You necessarily always remain unutterable?

And how is it that not only do the muses in the poems never age, but the thought in the poems always stays young?

A mature poet - and Attila Botár, the author of Ties is one such poet - crosses the boundaries between subjective and objective poetry, between love and philosophical lyricism with more confidence. Often we do not know where we are: at the happily bubbling spring of the troubadours, in the desolate landscape of Léthé or in the hallowed lands of wisdom and memory. But one thing we can be sure of wherever we go is that it is poetry to the core." (Éva Bánki)

Castle Street Workshop Books 42 - Veszprém

The book is sponsored by the National Cultural Fund